Heroes of the Storm General - /hotsg/

It's NERF or nothing edition

What's new?

>D.Va is the next hero
youtu.be/UgJLvtx5PzI
>Nexus Challenge 2.0; Oni Genji skin, Policeman D.Va, loot boxes, and more in Overwatch and HotS
us.battle.net/heroes/en/heroes20/nexuschallenge20/
youtu.be/Bv2t9lwC7lk

>**Megabundles Announced**; All players will be able to unlock up to 20 heroes for FREE
>Promotion ends May 22nd, 2017
us.battle.net/heroes/en/heroes20/megabundles

>Heroes of the Storm 2.0; Now LIVE!
us.battle.net/heroes/en/blog/20695700
us.battle.net/heroes/en/heroes20
>Genji Hero Announced; Now LIVE!
us.battle.net/heroes/en/heroes/genji
youtu.be/-SJgvzPRFEI
>Hamamura Battleground Announced; Now LIVE!
us.battle.net/heroes/en/battlegrounds/hanamura
youtu.be/Dq5-18Vt-c0

>For new players:
youtu.be/wPk004vsjuE
>New & Experience Players - Advice on Improving and Not Raging
youtu.be/dR220gLIUEo

>Which heroes should I buy?
Play all the heroes on free rotation or try mode and see who you like. Don't buy heroes just to get into ranked, you'll regret it.

>Current Free Hero Rotation
us.battle.net/forums/en/heroes/topic/17936383460
>Current Weekly Sale
us.battle.net/heroes/en/blog/20695741
>Current Weekly Brawl
us.battle.net/heroes/en/blog/20724210
>Latest Patch Notes
us.battle.net/heroes/en/blog/20721900

>Hero Rankings, Various Statistics, Talent Calculator, & Wiki
hotslogs.com/Default (Slightly inaccurate)
heroesfire.com/hots/talent-calculator
heroesofthestorm.gamepedia.com/Heroes_of_the_Storm_Wiki

>Current Tier List
robogrub.com/tierlist

>Where can I find you Twin Blades of feed pickers?
"/join Veeky Forums" in game chat
Previous thread:

why

So do you only actually get player levels (and thus boxes) when you level up an individual hero?

So if you wanted to get a bunch've boxes really fast you would play a bunch of heroes you only have 1-2 levels on right?

Xth for Lunara.

Yep!

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medivh's master's touch should give +1 damage for every enemy hero hit until quest completion as a QoL change

i don't think anybody would complain

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Xth for Li Li a CUTE!

jesus fucking christ

Is there a hotkey to toggle between teammates so I don't have to drag my mouse around the map to look at how they're doing?

Is that supposed to pass as a girl?

how do I lane dehaka against literally any ranged

I just get bullied into wasting tower ammo

post skins you have jerked off to

Is there any reason to pick Chen? He feels like he does nothing except not die

>tfw you'll never go healer as etc again because your quick match team didn't get a support but the enemy did
>tfw you'll never have as much fun now as you did in beta

god, why isn't Li Ming real

He's even bad at not dying, since his shield isn't that great at avoiding burst and is useless against CC.

Depends. Are you capable of out-pushing them?

>walk into wave
>W, auto minions a bit
>make way into bush
>repeat

Tongue the ranged nigga if they follow you into the bush.

Quality skin.

Getting free skins feels so good, actually.

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>she will never sit on your face with her sweaty ass after playing a game in those shorts

LADY VASHJ FUCKING WHEN?

Did they change how the shield talents on Abathur work?
I'm pretty sure the shield stopped healing if you dropped the hat but had the talent that left the shield on

>QM
>Faye on my team
>He does nothing but dive as Rehgar and get killed
wow.....so this is the power.....of pro HotS....

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she reminds me of Azula

they have the same VA if you didnt know

I noticed they sounded exactly the same

>tfw no azula announcer voice
Nova or Li Ming, doesn't even matter

So 2.0 is pretty fun so far.

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2.0 is pretty fucking aids
[imagine a picture of a 65% winrate with 2 losses in a row at the end]

>favorite heroes are firstbans in current meta
>play QM so i can actually play the hero i want
>get placed against a 5 man with a flawless comp while my team is 5 random people with a comp that makes no sense at all
why can 5 stacks queue for quick match

I mean it's the same game. It just feels nicer to win because now you get good goy boxes for leveling up.

Arthas nerf when?
Anub nerf when?
Leoric nerf when?
Uther buff when?

Why is it so easy to win when playing tank, but hard when playing assassin?

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Took Valve 5 years to add solo queue only mode back in after removing it. Don't expect Blizzard to ever give one.

Tank is a very important role that can win games when you know what you are doing

I have the opposite experience. Every time I play tank, all my assassins are useless chickenshits who don't capitalize on my initiations.

Why can a cloaked Nova halt a payload on Hanamura?

Why is Nova so bad?

Like actually why, not some meme tier answer

that Uther game i got carried hard by a genji. we where losing all game suddenly weeaboo man went off and pretty much got a penta on his own. shit was nuts.

Anub and Arthas aside does Leoric really need nerfs?
he already feels pretty niche.

You probably play way too fucking aggresive, just like me. Only as a tank you can call it "initiating" instead of "overextending like a retard".

Has anybody else been getting a bunch of little lag spikes?

she's undertuned. she doesn't do enough damage to be impactfull in teamfights. She also has no laning capability so she only works on specific maps and with specific comps.

She was pretty strong in Alpha and people kept whining about it. since then blizz has kept her down and is afraid to buff her in the slightest. every time they "rework" her. she gets 1-2 buffs and 6-7 nerfs.

yeah, just for my past few games

Because the only thing she can do is a moderate to high burst. The other assassins bring that by default plus waveclear, cc, objective securing, sieging, etc.

>get jumped by a nova as sylv
>unleash all my Q on her
>outburst and kill her

Why are you unable to stop a clocked Nova from standing ontop of your payload?

GOD DAMN
NOVA TRYING TO FIT IN WITH HUMANS

Because it's hard for me to see her while cloaked, so none of my shit hits.

>Went from 2300 to 900 in Masters in just 4 hours

>Stimdrone Varian
>HERO SLAIN
>HERO SLAIN
>HERO SLAIN
>QUAD KILL
>we do this the next 3 pushes

fun times

yeah, my game was shitting itself despite running fine beforehand
good thing it was my last game for the day anyway

fucking valeera players

When's ryu, Blizzard?

So I have HotS a chance and even though I thought I'd hate it it's pretty fun.
I tried Varian and I got one question, is the difference between going Arms and Fury that one has the burst and the other has sustained damage?

So when someone has two of those dots on their portrait and some stripes on the sides it basically means they afked a lot of AI games?

If you think about it... Aren't all the heroes in HotS just on-disc DLC?

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Yeah, weird slow-mo lag spikes yeah?

When capcom finishes fucking him in the ass

he doesn't really have that many moves, he'd only be able to dish out damage and no utility.

would be fun though, he has a bar like tracer's ultimate that fills up and he can spend it to make EX moves or use it all on a super.
And his passive gives enemies a stun meter.
How would you handle blocking?

>Charge Genji as Diablo
>He hits D right when I hit him
>Nothing happens
>He hops away fine
FUGGIN EBIN :DDD

git gud

What are the best ways to farm gold?

Also anyone new to game in EU want to group up I think we earn more xp that way.

Could be worse I suppose

how she sits on the mount, as if she couldnt get any more fucking sexy

>what is iframes

lol

How.

Be real with me. How many people actually bought skins pre-2.0?

i think its really smart of them to give away skins wholesale because it provides an incentive for people to buy/craft the skin they want.

feels really nice owning some of the better legendary skins through loot drops, i got infested tychus and maraudin muradin. How were your pulls /hotsg/

I just got this from one of my level up boxes.

I'm not saying I'm into monster girls, but I'd totally fug the bug.

too bad the hero is outmatched by a big green veiny warty _orc

>playing game
>get a fucking blue screen
>get back in
>"reconnected, please wait while you catch up to the server, this may take a few minutes"
>get back in for real
>game took the worst level 20 talent by far
>lose
Nice fucking shit blizzard.

Guess which team was a 5 stack and which one was 2 + 3 randoms

Solution: The losing team was a 5 stack

I'm pretty fucking new to this game (Level 26 I think) but the 3 games I played as Zul'jin I did super well and I really like him

>guess he died

>tfw you will never fuck zags upper half

What's the hardest that matchmaking has ever told you to go fuck yourself?

honestly, some of my friends who are super into overwatch did something like this.

they 5 stack into qm and then basically fed until their games ended in 5-7 min, unlocked the genji skin and went back to overwatch

She could be black

>tfwywn get ovipositor'd by zagara

Getting queued against multiple profession players duo-queuing in Preseason when I was around rank 4-5.

Oh, and a four minute battlefield.

How horrifying.

You got me there.

They all deserve Academy Awards if thats what was going on because they all still bothered to attempt to play objectives and take camps and stuff

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LI-MING ANNOUNCER PACK FUCKING WHEN BLIZZARD ILL PAY 1600 SHARDS

im not saying thats what your enemy team did. its just that qm is filled with people from overshit here for the sweet genji skin.

dont blame them honestly, the genji skin is pretty rad and the officer dva make a part of me feel funny

But bot games are usually faster and easier.

Your friends are idiots.

>assassin mains

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>your friends are idiots.

no shit they unironically play overshit all the damn time. i miss when they still played dota. i play overwatch too but mostly hots

nigga I made one ages ago
>you can't just deal 1k damage from across the screen
>That's where you're wrong ya fool

Reminder that stealth mechanics in any moba is unhealthy and cancerous

>battletag name

>The Overwatch hero is fucking cancer with an answer to everything.
What a surprise.

I've been around before I even knew jojo was a thing

>saved by the auriel

what the fuck is that thing on the left

is that pigma from star fox???

I don't like the new maps. It's just because I don't really get them, I know. I've just leaped back into the game after a huge break and don't feel like reading up on it and turning my relaxed return for fun into a chore, but damn.

We just wrecked the other team in teamfights but still lost every single wave on the zerg map. They feel so unintuitive and also kind of plain.

literally incapable of killing anyone with sustain

Remove Overwatch.